Hairpin device



D. A. BRUNNER HAIRPIN DEVICE Oct. 3, 1950 Filed June 13, 1947 252 22773? Dire/v4 14. Bea/mm Lf llia e I l V 1jhi s;invention relates to a receptacle .ior the storage of bobby pins.

Bobby pins, that is pins of twyte'ste t a the attached drawingfare used very extensively for putting up curls and before each is used it must be. spread open, again the-rather strong spring pressure which .is incorporated injfthe'se pins. However, nothing is sold along with-the bobby pins to facilitate the task of opening them and accordingly women have resorted to many expedients in the opening of these pins. For example, it is a well known fact that many open these pins with their teeth, a practice which is undoubtedly harmful to the enamel of the teeth. Others open the bobby pins With-their finger nails, and find that if thefingernails are covered with any of the lacquer polishes now commonly used these polishes are chipped oflby the operation of opening the bobb pin.

The present invention aims to provide a re ceptacle which has a plurality of pockets in which bobby pins may be placed in upright position ready for convenient use and the invention further provides a funnel which serves a dual purpose of assisting in placing th hobby pins in the women runnerl hicago, Ill., assignor of one- Howard Brenner, Qhicago Ill.

4 is a sectional viewz showing hgw the-; funnel member is employed for spreading ,bobby;

pockets, and also of spreading the bobby pins before they are inserted in the hair.

One Of the objects, therefore, of the invention is to provide a bobby pin receptacle having a plurality of pockets and a funnel which may be moved from one to another of th pockets. I

Another object of the invention is to provide a bobby pin receptacle having a plurality of pockets and a funnel for feeding the pins into the receptacle, and which funnel serves also as a spreader for th bobby pins. k Another object of this invention is to provide a receptacle for bobby pins having a plurality of pockets for receiving and storing the pin in upright position. The pockets also serve for firmly supporting a device which may be used for spreading the-bobby pins andvalso for funneling them into the pockets.

Other. objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent from the disclosures in the specification and the accompanying drawmg.

On the drawing:

Figure 1 is a top plan view of a device made in accordance with this invention;

Figure 2 is a central longitudinal sectional view of the device shown in Figure 1, showing some bobby pins contained in the receptacles;

Figure 3 is a sectional view showing the funnel and spreader member spaced apart from one of the pockets; and

pins. l In thegdrawingsthe numeral. lotrepresen generally a block of material havin ai latwbase; ll and a plurality ofpocket gll, 13,14 and: l5 Theheight of these pockets is preferably :less the length ofthe, bobby pins which are current]; A appear to have thevisame'.

sold, and all ofwhich length. Accordingly the height of the pocket will be such that when a bobby pin such as 16 protrudes therefrom enough of it will protrude to be readily grasped by the fingers of the user.

The device should contain at least two and preferably more pockets, so that when one pocket has been adequately filled with bobby pins, fed thereinto through the funnel, the funnel may be moved to another pocket after which the con-,

tents of the first mentioned pocketare readily available for use. I

A funnel shaped device I1 is provided and so proportioned that its lower portion I 8 may be 1 seated fairly snugly in any of the pockets whereby the funnel will be held against rocking movement.

It is apparent that the funnel serves the usual purpose of a funnel in making it easy to drop the bobby pins into any selcted pocket. Furthermore,

the edge of the funnel afiords a needed device for spreading the bobby pins. It is found that they may be pressed downwardly so that the straight leg [9 of one of these pins will pass beyond and below theedge of the. funnel While the lower endof the wrinkled leg 20 will engage the inner edge surface of the funnel and thereby be spread or deflected as the bobby pin is pressed vertically downwardly.

By rocking the pin as indicated in Figure 4 a further spread of the two legs of the pin may be obtained.

While it will'be readily apparent that the use of a spreader of this character is a considerable improvement over the use of the finger nails or teeth for spreading the bobby pins, attention is called further to the fact that the device shown herein is extremely simple inconstruction and most efllciently used. When it is considered that bobby pins are generallyused for pinning up a large number of curls, usually an extensive operation performed late at night and dozens of pockets may be nt that certain features of the invention are essential, it should be under-,

stood that some modifie the invention without de 'ciples of this invention, an the :purpose to limit the paten otherwise than necessitated by the scope if the appended claims. V

Iclaim as my invention: 1. A bobby pin receptacle compfisi'n'g "atase' member having a plurality of identically shaped vertically extendin pockets whose upper ends are open, and a symmetrical funnel shaped device having its lower end portion held snugly and nonroeliablyin the up er end portion ofon'e orsaid pockets and adapted into and similarly held in any of the other peeketse -said funnel having an upper radially flared portion terminating in an edge portion inclined at about a 45 ations may be made in parting'from the prind it is, therefore, not; t granted hereon to be I removably insertableangletne upper edge of which is.

thin enough to enter between the prongs of a closed bobby-pinxwhen the latter is held vertically andthrust downwardly against said edge upper radially flared 1. edge; portion inclined tweenifiei rofi latte 2 A bobby) pin receptacle comprising a base member having a [plurality of identically shaped vertically extending pockets whose upmar ends areopeni saidpockets being proportioned to support bobby pins vertically with their upper ends protruding from the pockets, and a symmetrical funnel shaped device having its lower end portion held snuglyand non-rockably in the upper end portion of one of said pQcL Zets; and adapted to be rmovably insertable into and similarly held in any of the otherpockets, said funnel having an portion terminating in anat about a 45 angle,- the upper edge of which isthin enough to enter be- Y ee a elosed bobby pin when the he1d""ertical1y and thrust downwardly a a nst 331d QQEQ';

DEVONA A BRUNNER.

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